{"id":6396,"date":"2020-05-05T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2020-05-05T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T09:31:21","slug":"greens-back-social-housing-as-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/greens-back-social-housing-as-stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens Back Social Housing As Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has backed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shelter.org.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/200504_joint-release-building-the-recovery-SHARP_supporting-partners-final.pdf\">a call from a coalition of peak housing and homelessness groups<\/a>\u00a0to ramp up social housing construction to help solve the housing crisis and generate jobs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe government should be investing now to make sure everyone has a roof over their head. Australia is in desperate need of more social housing. Filling this gap now by constructing new homes will also act as a much-needed economic stimulus.<br \/>\n\u201cImmediate social housing construction is a vital part of building a better world on the other side of this pandemic. It will also create tens of thousands of jobs. Over the next decade, we must build 500,000 new public and community high-quality, climate-conscious houses that can become safe and secure homes for so many people in need.<br \/>\n\u201cLong overdue maintenance and upgrading will make existing social housing safe and liveable for people on low incomes and benefit existing social housing tenants, while providing jobs.<br \/>\n\u201cRelying on the market has utterly failed to address our housing crisis, leaving some of the most vulnerable people on the verge of homelessness or in chronic rental stress. It\u2019s time for the Federal Government to lead from the front with big investment to build public and community housing.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery week now we see more people locked out of affordable housing. This is simply unsustainable and inhumane. Things have to change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has backed\u00a0a call from a coalition of peak housing and homelessness groups\u00a0to ramp up social housing construction to help solve the housing crisis and generate jobs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe government should be investing now to make sure everyone has a roof &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/greens-back-social-housing-as-stimulus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens Back Social Housing As Stimulus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}